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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIoi-t.

GUSTAV RANGE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN DESKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 179,345, dated June 27,18i6 application filed August 2, 1875.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GUsTAv RANGE, of the cityand State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Desks or Cabinetsfor Type-Writing Machines, &c., of which the following is aspecification Type-writing machines of simple construction and littleexpense are now sold and used for business purposes, and it isadvantageous to have writing materials accessible when operating suchmachines, and to have compartments into which to assort letters andpapers.

My improved desk is especially adapted to type-writing machines, but itmay be used with an accountbook case or blank-holder, or other applianceinserted in the place of the type-writin g machine.

I make use of a desk with a swinging flap, beneath which is avertically-movin g platform, carrying the type-writer or other device,to be raised or lowered when the desk-flap is turned back. I also employswinging covers that are provided with removable pigeon-holes, so thatthe covers and pigeonholes may be used in connection with the desk, saidpigeon-holes being in a convenient position, and swinging back with thecovers. When the type-writing machine is depressed and the desk closed,the covers can be brought together, and the pigeon-holes will beinclosed by said covers, but if the covers are to be closed around thetype-writing machine when in its elevated position, the pigeon-holeswill be first removed from the covers.

111 the drawing, Figure l is an elevation of the desk with the coversswung back, and Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section of such desk with theparts closed, and Fig. 3 is a sectional plan of the back and halfcubical covers.

The table a is upon the frame-work, forming the side closets b I), withdoors 0, and racks for books or other articles, and drawers 6 are, bypreference, employed above the closets. The central portion of the deskbetween such closets b b is sufficiently open for the feet to pass inbeneath the front piece f as a person sits at the desk, and this frontpiece f forms part of an open frame-work, within which is the platformg, that is provided with side guides h that slide in vertical groovesbetween the strips t i, and there are cords passing over pulleys andattached to counter weights or springs, by means of which the platformand the weight thereon are balanced, or nearly so. The devicerepresented at 1 illustrates the frame-work of a type-writin g machineresting upon the platform 9, and as such type-writing machines areknown, a further representation and description are unnecessary. A casefor printed blanks, or for account-books, or for goods of any kind maytake the place of the type-writer l, and be moved up and down with andupon the platform. The flap m, hinged at a, when in the position shownin Fig. 2, forms an ordinary writing-desk; when turned back, as in Fig.1, the platform 9 and type-writer can be raised or lowered.

In the front piece f I provide an opening and door, 0, with ledges 2 and3 at the back. This gives access to the space containing thetype-writing machine without raising the deskflap on, but it isspecially available for holding down the platform, when depressed, bythe ledge 2 passing. above the same as the door 0 is closed, or forholding up such platform, when elevated, by the ledge 3 passing beneaththe frontedge thereof as the door is closed.

In consequence of this construction, the door A 0 has to be opened whenthe platform is either raised or depressed. A back piece or panel, 1, isat the back part of the desk above the table and flap, and to itsvertical edges the half-cubical covers are hinged at 8. Each cover ismade of a top piece, t, a front piece, a, and side piece, o, so thatwhen swung back the covers are out of the way, but-when swung together,they, with the stationary back, form a cubical case of a size sufficientto inclose the type-writer, or its equivalent.

The pigeon-holes w are made of the ordinary wooden partitions, formingcompartments of a size adapted to the papers or other articles to beinserted, and upon the top pieces t are strips 5, and upon the fronts uare ledges 6, which form supports for the pigeon-holes, so that theframes of partitions can be removed from or slipped into the spacesprovided for them in the respective covers, and between said ledges 5and 6.

I do. not claim a desk made with quartercubical swinging covers in frontof stationary 2. The stationary vertical back 4', and halfoubiealcovers, hinged at s to said back, in combination with the swinging flapm of the desk, the parts being constructed as set forth, so as toinclose either the flap when turned back against the back-1", orarticles resting upon such flap when turned down, as set forth. Signedby me this 30th day of July, A. D.

G. RANGE. Witnesses GEO. T. PINOKNEY, CHAS. H. SMITH.

